I've long had a deep dislike of the practice of renumbering comic books. For various reasons--it makes it harder to keep track of what you're reading ("now was this Volume II or Volume III of this series...?"), it conceals a lot of history--but I find that it doesn't bother me at all with regard to the new Captain America series.
And I realized why, tonight.
It's because--unlike most cases, where a title is renumbered in order to boost sales (for some reason comic fans still seem to flock to anything that has a #1 on the cover) or to try to appeal to a younger market ("geez, Fantastic Four is in the 500s, the kids are going to think it's ancient!")--the new series marked a genuine change in the title, something that actually made the book something different from what it was.
So, that's my new opinion on renumbering books. That there had better be a significant (and, hopefully, good) change associated with the new numbering, a change that lasts longer than the first few issues. Otherwise, I still don't see the point.
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